Hospital Infection: From Miasmas to MRSA - Ayliffe, Graham A. J. (University of Birmingham) a English, Mary P. (United Bristol Hospitals Trust)

This is an absorbing account of the continuing battle to control hospital infections, from the earliest days of hospital care when bad air or miasma was thought to be the cause, to the present day and the emergence of antibiotic-resistant 'superbugs' such as MRSA and necrotizing fasciitis.